chatviz.load_data.prep_whatsapp_data

chatviz.load_data.prep_whatsapp_data(filename)

Processes a WhatsApp chat file into a neat DataFrame.

Chat history can be downloaded from WhatsApp as a text file. See here for how to download WhatsApp chat data as a .txt file.

Parameters
filenameUnion[int, str, bytes, PathLike]

The path to the JSON chat file.

Returns
pd.DataFrame

A DataFrame with all of the necessary columns i.e. [‘date’, ‘name’, ‘text’].